Advanced Power 120

Introduction

Advanced Power 120 is an online course, consisting of 100 units of English, and providing approximately 120 hours of study for students.

Course aims

This course is designed to take students from Intermediate, CEFR C1 up to C2. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level, with vocabulary, spelling, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Tata bahasa

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Confidently talk and write about the past, present, and future using a variety of verb forms, including continuous and perfect aspects.
  • Use complex passive forms and understand when to use active and passive voices.
  • Use relative clauses, conditional forms, and question tags effectively.
  • Express nuanced meanings using modal verbs, causative forms, and subjunctive structures.
  • Manipulate sentence structures to enhance communication.

Kosakata

By the end of the course, students will have learned approximately 800 lexical items, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Unit summary

Module 1

  • Kosakata: Adjectives of character
  • Tata bahasa: Articles
  • Membaca: Been there, done that
  • Mendengarkan: Bad dreams
  • Kosakata: Adjective and noun collocations 2
  • Tata bahasa: Causative Have and Get
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Menulis: Formal letters
  • Revision: Material from module 1

Module 2

  • Kosakata: Adjectives of mood
  • Tata bahasa: Conjunctions and Connectors
  • Membaca: Being polite in Japanese
  • Mendengarkan: My paranoid friend
  • Kosakata: Business idioms 1
  • Tata bahasa: Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Berbicara: Conversations – Feeling ill
  • Revision: Material from module 2

Module 3

  • Kosakata: Animals
  • Tata bahasa: Comparatives and superlatives
  • Membaca: Jamie Oliver
  • Mendengarkan: Young at heart
  • Kosakata: Collocations with prepositions
  • Tata bahasa: Indirect questions
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Menulis: Informal letters
  • Revision: Material from module 3

Module 4

  • Kosakata: Clothes and clothing
  • Tata bahasa: Future Perfect
  • Membaca: Massacre at Wounded Knee
  • Mendengarkan: A typical English summer
  • Kosakata: Adjective + Noun collocations
  • Tata bahasa: Talking about the future
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Berbicara: Conversations – Splitting up with your boyfriend
  • Revision: Material from module 4

Module 5

  • Kosakata: Confusing words 1
  • Tata bahasa: It’s time/would rather
  • Membaca: The hottest cities on earth
  • Mendengarkan: An extract from a novel
  • Kosakata: Verb + Noun collocations
  • Tata bahasa: Modal Verbs
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Menulis: Formal letters – Making a complaint
  • Revision: Material from module 5

Module 6

  • Kosakata: Food and drink
  • Tata bahasa: Prepositions
  • Membaca: The Great Wall of China
  • Mendengarkan: Lost in translation
  • Kosakata: Collocations with verbs
  • Tata bahasa: Active and Passive voice
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Berbicara: Conversations – Describing accidents
  • Revision: Material from module 6

Module 7

  • Kosakata: Jobs and occupations
  • Tata bahasa: Reported Speech
  • Membaca: Shakespeare’s life
  • Mendengarkan: BBC World News
  • Kosakata: Confusing Words
  • Tata bahasa: Past Perfect
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Menulis: Academic essays
  • Revision: Material from module 7

Module 8

  • Kosakata: Travel and holidays
  • Tata bahasa: Inversion
  • Membaca: The rise of tourism in Asia
  • Mendengarkan: A tourist guide’s advice
  • Kosakata: Adjective + Verb collocations
  • Tata bahasa: Conditionals
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Berbicara: Conversations – Talking about travel experiences
  • Revision: Material from module 8

Module 9

  • Kosakata: Education and learning
  • Tata bahasa: Relative clauses
  • Membaca: The education system in Finland
  • Mendengarkan: A podcast on learning languages
  • Kosakata: Collocations with nouns
  • Tata bahasa: Future forms (will vs going to)
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Wordbuilding: Building vocabulary through related word groups
  • Menulis: Descriptive essays
  • Revision: Material from module 9

Module 10

  • Kosakata: Technology and innovation
  • Tata bahasa: Subjunctive and imperative forms
  • Membaca: Advances in AI
  • Mendengarkan: A TED talk on technological innovation
  • Kosakata: Business idioms 2
  • Tata bahasa: Complex sentence structures
  • Phrasal verbs: More difficult idiomatic verb + preposition combinations
  • Spelling: Practice in spelling difficult words
  • Menulis: Business reports
  • Revision: Material from module 10

Follow-up

Students completing the Advanced Power 120 course should feel confident in their ability to tackle further advanced studies, including preparation for advanced English exams such as the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English.